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Ann-christina Knudsen
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I'm pretty sure I enrolled in a history course, but I ended up in a class that was geared toward political science. And it was a bad political science class at that. She never really seemed to concentrate on either of the topics that were spelled out in the course title: war and diplomacy. Instead we learned about realism and liberalism...except Prod Knudsen didn't seem to know what those topics actually consisted of. Her lectures were incoherent...what I could hear of them because she speaks at a whisper. People say that she is very nice, but she called our class dogs when we started putting our things away after she said class was over. Her exams weren't hard and the readings really helped. Seriously, I went to class the entire quarter and had about 15 pages of total written notes. And I'm not blasting this class because I did poorly, I actually did quite well. The class was horrible and I really think you would be better served taking a course with a professor who knows what they are talking about and how to conduct a lecture.
I'm pretty sure I enrolled in a history course, but I ended up in a class that was geared toward political science. And it was a bad political science class at that. She never really seemed to concentrate on either of the topics that were spelled out in the course title: war and diplomacy. Instead we learned about realism and liberalism...except Prod Knudsen didn't seem to know what those topics actually consisted of. Her lectures were incoherent...what I could hear of them because she speaks at a whisper. People say that she is very nice, but she called our class dogs when we started putting our things away after she said class was over. Her exams weren't hard and the readings really helped. Seriously, I went to class the entire quarter and had about 15 pages of total written notes. And I'm not blasting this class because I did poorly, I actually did quite well. The class was horrible and I really think you would be better served taking a course with a professor who knows what they are talking about and how to conduct a lecture.
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Lecture style: decent with the lectures. Somewhat scattered when she didn't have an outline to follow. The first few weeks with the powerpoint were somewhat pointless since it was mostly reading the slides with only extra tidbits every so often. Later, the slides became more of a skeleton outline and the lectures became fairly interesting. (Essay) tests: Easy. Kinda crazy that she wants some citations for a 50-minute midterm, but the grading is very generous even if you don't finish the essay -- received 98/100 even with 1 body paragraph + the conclusion missing. The final is pretty much the same way. If you do the readings, its cake. If you do half the readings, its still cake, since you can probably still get an A just off her lecture notes alone as long as you can answer her question coherently.
Lecture style: decent with the lectures. Somewhat scattered when she didn't have an outline to follow. The first few weeks with the powerpoint were somewhat pointless since it was mostly reading the slides with only extra tidbits every so often. Later, the slides became more of a skeleton outline and the lectures became fairly interesting. (Essay) tests: Easy. Kinda crazy that she wants some citations for a 50-minute midterm, but the grading is very generous even if you don't finish the essay -- received 98/100 even with 1 body paragraph + the conclusion missing. The final is pretty much the same way. If you do the readings, its cake. If you do half the readings, its still cake, since you can probably still get an A just off her lecture notes alone as long as you can answer her question coherently.
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